About powershell's verbosity: My pandemic project is yet another pipe-objects-instead-of-strings shell, marcel: https://marceltheshell.org. It's "home" is Linux, not Windows.

Marcel is also somewhat verbose. It exposes Python functions on the command line, so when you need to write such a function, it starts getting long. E.g. if you want to sort files by last time modified:

    ls | sort (f: f.mtime)

There are abstraction mechanisms to help deal with this. E.g. this defines a command to sort piped-in files by time.

    bytime = [sort (f: f.mtime)]

So you can then do this:

    ls | bytime

Still kind of wordy. I'm thinking about a way of having flags expand to filters. That would get things as compact as bash.